troparion

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Ancient Greek τροπάριον (tropárion)

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troparion (plural troparions or troparia)

  1. (Eastern Orthodoxy, music) A short hymn of one stanza, or organised in more complex forms as a series of stanzas.
    Coordinate term: apolytikion
    • 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 31:
      When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, whom the Serbian church has declared saints.

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